Alice Sebold Quotes

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

Alice Sebold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 6, 1963

Topics

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There's something to be said about content living on a channel forever.

John Cabrera

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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Andrew Vachss

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Freedom has no history.

Andrew Cohen

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I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

John Paul DeJoria

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I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Maya Angelou

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I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

Robert Scoble

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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

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Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

Robert Kennedy

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Jean Rostand

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I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot.

Tracy Spiridakos

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I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

Michael Mando

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I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

Louis Sachar

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